linux-kernel - Re: [EXT] mwifiex: Firmware name for W8997 sdio wifi chip

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Message-ID: <20200529084630.j7rpdypt6vycsedh@pali>
Date:   Fri, 29 May 2020 10:46:30 +0200
From:   Pali Rohár <pali@...nel.org>
To:     Ganapathi Bhat <ganapathi.bhat@....com>
Cc:     Amitkumar Karwar <amitkarwar@...il.com>,
        Xinming Hu <huxinming820@...il.com>,
        Marek Behún <marek.behun@....cz>,
        "linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [EXT] mwifiex: Firmware name for W8997 sdio wifi chip

On Friday 29 May 2020 08:43:56 Ganapathi Bhat wrote:
> Hi Pali,
> 
> > According to publicly available information, firmware for these W8xxx
> > Marvell wifi chips is vulnerable to security issue CVE-2019-6496 [1].
> > 
> > Are you able to update firmwares to the last versions and give us some
> > information which (old) firmware versions are affected by that security issue?
> > 
> > So Linux distribution would know if they are distributing older vulnerable
> > firmwares and should push security fixes with new firmware versions.
> > 
> 
> 88W8787, 88W8797, 88W8801, 88W8897, and 88W8997 models are all already updated, with one exception:
> usb8897_uapsta.bin, which we will upstream soon;

Hello Ganapathi! Thank you for information. Can you point me to git tree
or location where are firmware files already updated?